Sweethill Farm, Top Fields, Wallsend Cove and Southwell Business Park
Having dropped David off at the Gym, it seemed daft to drive back to the Cottage and then to come back an hour later, so instead me and Ted had a walk around Sweethill Farm and Top Fields, before heading back to the Business Park via Wallsend Cove.
This could be a regular walk, weather permitting, so it was good to see what was about.
Birds Recorded:
Peregrine Falcon
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
12 Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4 Swift
Skylark
Sand Martin
Swallow
2 Willow Warbler
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
5 Raven
12 Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Having dropped David off at the Gym, it seemed daft to drive back to the Cottage and then to come back an hour later, so instead me and Ted had a walk around Sweethill Farm and Top Fields, before heading back to the Business Park via Wallsend Cove.
This could be a regular walk, weather permitting, so it was good to see what was about.
Birds Recorded:
Peregrine Falcon
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
12 Stock Dove
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4 Swift
Skylark
Sand Martin
Swallow
2 Willow Warbler
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
5 Raven
12 Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
There were quite a few Swallows catching insects in the Top Fields this afternoon.
Along Business Park fence were a couple of.......
...........Willow Warblers.
In the fields were these Ravens.
And another.
Big brutes aren't they
A female Linnet
Butterflies Recorded:
Small Skipper
Large Skipper
Large White
Meadow Brown
100's of Gatekeepers
Marbled White
Red Admiral
Common Blue
There were hundreds of Gatekeepers about.
Here's another showing the two white dots in the black spot.
And a Red Admiral
1 Silver Y (Autographa gamma)
Six-Spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae)
A Silver Y.
Six-Spot Burnet moth
Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Hoverflies Recorded:
Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Broad Centurian (Chloromyia formosa)
Four-spot Wingwavers (Herina lugubris)
A Broad Centurian with a Common Red Soldier Beetle behind it.
A Four-spot Wingwaver (Herina lugubris)
Common Red Soldier Beetles (Rhagonycha fulva)
Swollen-thighed Beetle (Oedemera nobilis)
Lesser Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Ischnomera cyanea)
To the left of the Four-spot Wingwaver is a Common Red Soldier Beetle
Cockroaches Recorded:
Lesser Cockroach (Ectobius sylvestris)
Well I have no idea what this is............
Crickets and Grasshoppers Recorded:
grasshoppers sp
Ted:
grasshoppers sp
Ted:
One minute he's lagging behind and then..........
..........he's away